Pune Municipal Corporation finds no users for treated water
"We release all the treated water into the river as there is no response to our appeal to use it for non-drinking purposes. We are ready to give it away free of cost to those wanting to use it, but the PMC has no mechanism to provide this water on demand," V G Kulkarni, Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) water department head, told TOI on Wednesday.
The civic body releases all the treated water into the river along with 25 % of untreated sewage. The city generates 750 MLD sewage.
Civic officials said their appeals through two advertisements to citizens and industries to use treated water for non-drinking purposes has not found takers. The idea is to fill treated water in tankers and provide them for gardening, car washing centres and other uses so that people do not use drinking water for such needs.
"We had published two advertisements appealing to citizens to use treated water. We will keep up the efforts to make more people aware about using treated water," Kulkarni said.
Tony Twine, chief economist at Econometrix, says that if local content is increased, supplies could possibly be integrated into the global supply chain.
